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Handmaid's Tale: A Short Story
After a long, painful quest our hero finally overcame the challenges, problems, and bmps in this long road. Dane’s arch nemesis Slackjaw turned him into a monster and others too, he couldn’t let others be tainted with an unholy life. So Dane hunted down his foe with fury and determination.
Dane’s arch nemesis Slackjaw has been hiding out on an island with dense forests and an enormous volcano. Slackjaw has a base on this island called Eagles Landing, a secret organization called the Global watch is running the base far from the worries of the world, in the philippines.When dane found out he went there immediately, as the plane landed in the philippines Dane knew all to well he was hungry, after walking around for awhile he found, to his surprise, …show more content…
“Well well.” he said “ Good job I must say, it would have taken a lot but you did it anyway,” Slackjaw then started to slow clap and walk towards Dane, “ It's too bad it's all for nothing,” next he charged at Dane full speed, super speed, but Dane punched him a few feet back and ran over to his body and kicked his chest in. “This has to stop,” Dane exclaimed “This all has to stop,” “YOU WILL NOT WIN,” Slackjaw yelled as he grabbed Danes leg and smashed him to the ground,got up and stood up Dane then punched his face and chest hundreds of times at lighting speed and kicked Dane as hard as he could a few hundred feet away. “What have I done,” Dane thought to himself “I could die here, and lose everything,” his aching body caused him to lean on his side and saw Slackjaw walking towards him with an angry look and a murderous smile “Didn’t I tell you, you can’t win,” Slackjaw exclaimed as he slammed his fists into Dane and heard his ribs crack. When he stopped Dane was barely breathing, “You know kid, I have been at this game a long time --thirty seven years, and I knew you couldn’t do it” Slackjaw said to Dane’s wounded body, “ But sometimes . . . the villain comes out on top,” then Slackjaw pulls a long knife out of his pocket “And the hero dies,” and Dane was stabbed through the heart. As Slackjaw was walking away from Dane’s life less body he put two fingers on his ear and says “Send in another, this one couldn’t cut
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